lapsus oculiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

lapsus oculi (複数形 lapsus oculi)

1. (formal, rare) An error that results from looking in the wrong place, especially one that occurs while copying or translating a body of text.
   • 1970, Klearchos, page 100:

     The straightforward and economical explanation of this mistake is a lapsus oculi on the part of the mason triggered by the structural similarity in his draft of the local freak beta and the mu which immediately followed it.

     Likely italicized.

   • 1980, Joseph Perry Ponte, Musica Disciplina: A Revised Text, Translation and Commentary, Brandeis University, page xiv:

     It has been carelessly copied and contains many lapsus oculi: frequently a single word has been omitted, obviously through inattention; occasionally a line or two of the archetype has been skipped, so that completely separate sentences have been fused together; sometimes simple mis-readings occur.

   • 1998, Norma Bouchard & Veronica Pravadelli, editors, Umberto Eco's Alternative, →ISBN, page 100:

     Was it a simple lapsus oculi on the part of the translator, a kind of scribal error that led to an involuntary deletion?

   • 2014, William Heath Robinson & K.R.G. Browne, How to be a Motorist, →ISBN:

     Well, if what he runs into is the comely member, all may turn out for the best, as more than one romance has burgeoned in a Cottage Hospital. If, on the other hand, it is the local reservoir or a passing pantechnicon, he will probably regret his lapsus oculi (I think).

参考

• misreading